Allegories Collection

Dance of Death / Holbein
Old or young, rich or poor, powerful or weak - whoever you are, Death insists that you join in his Dance !

Absinthe
Allegory on the dangers of drinking Absinthe

Grim Reaper Death Allegories 1883 Depicted Top
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Skeleton and Skull
A skeleton, and a skull and crossbones

The Grim Reaper
Death personified as The Grim Reaper

Tower Babel 1563 Brueghel Pieter Elder Bruegel
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SKULL AND CROSSBONES
The traditional emblem of Death, adopted by pirates and other evil-doers. Date: 1817

ENCOUNTER WITH SKELETON
An aristocratic pair descend to the cellar, only to be confronted by a skeleton. Well, my dears, you can imagine their surprise... Date: 18th century

CHAPEL OF DEATH
The macabre Chapel of the Church of Death, decorated with skeletons and skulls. Is this an actual place, or a surreal fantasy ? Date: circa 1820

INVITATION TO DEATH
The grave's a fine and private place... - Death invites a young aristocrat to join him among the coffins. Date: 1792

TRIUMPH OF DEATH
Kings and popes, warriors and women with their children - Death remorselessly drives his ox-drawn chariot over us all.. Date: circa 1550

THE FUNERAL CART
The funeral cart - illustration to Wynkyn de Worde's The Crafte to lyve well and to dye well Date: 1505

LADY AND DEATH'S HEAD
She looks into her mirror but, somewhat to her surprise, instead of her own face she sees a death's head

KNIGHT OF DEATH/DURER
A fully armed knight going to the wars with a presentiment of coming evil. Accompanied by Sin and Death, personified as his footman and esquire Date: 1564

MAN, SKULL, SKELETON
Robert Jannys, Mayor of Norwich in 1517, seems to be much obsessed with death, holding a skull while a skeleton gibbers at his side Date: 1517

THIS IS THE END
A priest points to a coffin and reminds us that This is the period [end] of all human Glory'. circa 1660

Cartoon, The Rescuer, WW1
Cartoon, The Rescuer. Germany comes to the help of Death, represented by a skeleton drowning in a sea of blood. Date: 1916

THE ETERNAL QUESTION Date: 1901

MISER AND DEATH
Miser horrified as Death deprives him of his precious worldly wealth Date: 1538

INTO THE ABYSS
Down, down for ever I was falling.. into the vast abyss Date: circa 1914

SLEEP AND DEATH
Death as perceived by the Ancient Greeks : the corpse of the Trojan hero Sarpedon, son of Zeus, is borne from the battlefield by Sleep and Death Date: mid-13th century BC

ALL EQUAL IN DEATH
Councillor and king, woman and child - together in death Date: 1808

VALLEY OF DEATH
The descent of man into the Vale of Death Date: 1808

SOULS OF WARRIORS
The souls of brave warriors, slain on the field of battle, are borne to Heaven by angels Date: Middle Ages

THE ROAD TO RUIN & DEATH
The Road To Ruin...and ultimately Death Date: 1828

THE DEPARTING SOUL
The soul of a man departs his body at the moment of death

Death personified on a Tarot card
Death personified as a skeleton with a scythe on a Tarot card. Date: 1926

DEATH THE REAPER OF POOR
DEATH - THE TRUE RELIEVING OFFICER Dedicated without permission to the Poor Law Board Date: 1868

DEATH WITH SCYTHE
DEATH as a skeleton, with his scythe Date: 1868

Cartoon, AFTER THE DERBY
Cartoon, After the Derby! Death doffs his hat and kindly opens the gate for a coachload of revellers back from the Derby. Hell be getting to know them a whole lot better soon. Date: 1870

DEATH AND THE MAIDEN Date: 1503

DEATH / DO US PART (C15)
Allegorical representation of death seperating two lovers - Til Death Do Us Part.... Date: 15th Century

DEATHS DOOR
An old man enters Deaths door Date: 1808

The Triumph of Death In the midst of life... a reminder that Death is waiting for us all... Date: 14th century

Spain. Barcelona. Porxos d en Xifr?. Detail reliefs
Spain. Barcelona. Porxos d en Xifr?. Edifice neo-classical build commanded by Josep Xifr? i Cases. 1836. It was named Porxos after the long arcades encircling the buildings. Detail relief

Clock - Three Graces by E M Flaconet - Marble and Bronze
The Three Graces by Etienne-Maurice Flaconet (1716-1791) from circa 1770 a clock made from white marble and gilt bronze Date: circa 1770

Allegorical fresco. Hall ceiling. Museum of Ethnography. Bud
Allegorical fresco depicting goddess Justice surrounded by the figures depicting Justice and Peace and the Sin and Retribution

Spain. Barcelona. Porxos d en Xifr?. Edifice neo-classical build commanded by Josep Xifr? i Cases. 1836. It was named Porxos after the long arcades encircling the buildings. Detail relief

KLIMT, Gustav (1862-1918). Beethoven Freize
" KLIMT, Gustav (1862-1918). Beethoven Freize. 1902. AUSTRIA. Vienna. Wiener Sezession. Detail of the wall dedicated to " The Evil Forces" (fom left to right): the three Gorgons

William Adams
WILLIAM ADAMS Churchman, author of Sacred Allegories. Date: 1814 - 1848

The Pluralist, aided by his patron
A satirical comment on the rise of religious pluralism in the mid 19th century

Time & Globe
Allegorical illustration of Father Time with a child and two young women, allegories of the four seasons

Death and Dissolution
Revellers are disconcerted to learn, amid their debauchery, that one of their companions is none other than Death himself !

Death and the Maiden
A housewife encounters a grinning skeleton, and shrinks from his arrow, clutching her fan

Death Greets Derbygoers
Death doffs his hat and kindly opens the gate for a coachload of revellers back from the Derby. He ll be getting to know them a whole lot better soon

Death & Jester
Death and the Fool

Death / Allegories
The last sleep

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